Athlon + PS/2 mouse = oops

David Fox (dsfox@cogsci.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:07:45 -0800


I have an Athlon 650 on an FIC motherboard. My machine is stable when
the mouse is in the adapeter on the serial port, but plugging it into
the PS/2 port and switching /dev/mouse to psaux gives the following
kernel message when starting X. I'm running the stock redhat 6.1
kernel, 2.2.12-20.

% startx

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
current->tss.cr3 = 03cfb000, %cr3 = 03cfb000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c013b430>]
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: 00000000 ebx: c40c2adc ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000
esi: c40c2a00 edi: c3c75a00 ebp: 00000000 esp: c3cf9dc0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process X (pid: 561, process nr: 7, stackpage=c3cf9000)
Stack: c1dfc440 c1dfc440 00001780 00000034 00000000 00000000 00200034 00280003
00150018 c3c75a00 c3cf9e24 c3c75a00 00000000 00030002 00000001 08081460
00000034 0031c5f4 00000000 00000000 c40c0400 c3dff0c0 00000000 00000006
Call Trace: [<c013de20>] [<c013e141>] [<c013e52e>] [<c013cab8>] [<c011b735>] [<c011b78f>] [<c011b85c>]
[<c010f062>] [<c01256a3>] [<c013c598>] [<c0109d08>]
Code: 0f a3 10 19 d2 89 54 24 24 85 d2 0f 84 f1 03 00 00 83 7c 24
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.

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David Fox            http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf		xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab          dsfox@cogsci.ucsd.edu          baL ICH DSCU

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